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By: Twenty-six — Matt Mullenweg

Twenty-six — Matt Mullenweg — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:15:03 +0000

[…] is the eighth year I’ve blogged my birthday: 19, 20, 21, 22 (this one is funny), and 23, 24, and 25. Whew. Here’s to the second quarter century of life. « Secret History of […]

By: Twenty-Five — Matt Mullenweg

Twenty-Five — Matt Mullenweg — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:07:34 +0000

[…] is the seventh year I’ve blogged my birthday: 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, and 24. If you had asked me 7 years ago where I would be today I couldn’t have imagined all […]

By: Tim L. Walker

Tim L. Walker — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:42:19 +0000

Happy Belated Birthday, Matt! 🙂

By: JanOS

JanOS — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:57:03 +0000

Feliz CumpleaÃ±os

By: Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » What did I miss last week?

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » What did I miss last week? — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:39:45 +0000

[…] – Greg Linden decided to put Findory on auto-pilot and spend more time on his health and family. I understand the decision, but I’m still sorry that Greg is pulling back. I hope he continues to blog. Not only is he a healthy voice for personalization (which I consider to be one of the biggest trends in the future of search), but his blog points out cool things like the $1M Netflix challenge to improve their personalization. Ironically, the week before I went on vacation, someone was showing me a cool feature and I told them it would be really neat to contact Findory and see if Greg was interested in trying it out. – Wikipedia is adding nofollow to its external links. Brion Vibber announced this on a mailing list, and there’s some discussion at the bottom of this this section. The nice thing is that Brion’s email mentions “Better heuristic and manual flagging tools for URLs would of course be super,” which means that Wikipedia is open to ways that allow more trustworthy links to be “follow”-able. But for the present, I think it’s the right call: the incentive to create spammy links on Wikipedia has been massively reduced. As one SEO person commented on a forum, “Yeah, that sucks. All those hours spent spamming wikipedia, gone to waste…” Over time, I believe Wikipedia will probably find ways to remove nofollow from links that are more trusted. If you’re interested in helping with that, see Brion’s email for how to get involved. I don’t expect this change to affect Google’s rankings very much, but it’s good to see the Wikipedia folks paying close attention to link spam (and open to refining their trust for external links). – John Battelle pointed out that Peter Horan joined IAC as CEO of Media and Advertising. Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask, will report to Horan. – People noticed that Google is showing related searches more often at the bottom of some search result pages. – A Wired article second guesses some Yahoo decisions and execution. Among other things, it asserts that Yahoo! could have bought Google for $3 billion in 2002, and critiques the development of Panama. I personally thought that the article came off as too negative. “Why didn’t Company X buy Google back when they had the chance?” is a charge that you could level at several large companies besides Yahoo. And as someone who was in Google’s ads engineering group for a year when it was all of five people, I can tell you that writing a state-of-the-art ads serving system is hard. That’s especially true when Yahoo’s page views is measured in the billions. Ah, Valleywag finds a nice juxtaposition. Also read Yahoo’s full response to the Wired story here. – Yet another “pay-for-blogging” (PFB) business launched, this time by Text Link Brokers. It should be clear from Google’s stance on paid text links, but if you are blogging and being paid by services like Pay Per Post, ReviewMe, or SponsoredReviews, links in those paid-for posts should be made in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. The rel=”nofollow” attribute is one way, but there are numerous other ways to do paid links that won’t affect search engines, e.g. doing an internal redirect through a url that is forbidden from crawling by robots.txt. – Hitwise offered a market share comparison between Bloglines, Google Reader, Rojo, and other feed readers that claimed Bloglines was about 10x more popular than Google Reader. My hunch is that both AJAX and frames may be muddying the water here; I’ve mentioned that AJAX can heavily skew pageview metrics before. If the Google Reader team gets a chance to add subscriber numbers to the Feedfetcher user-agent (which may not be a trivial undertaking, since they probably share code with other groups at Google that fetch using the same bot mechanism), that would allow an apples-to-apples comparison. – Google closed a small security hole that Tony Ruscoe found. After reading Tony’s post-mortem post, it sounds like it was closer to a proof-of-concept than a serious threat and the security team responded and fixed the problem quickly, which is good. – Someone defaced 3-4 SEO blogs using a security hole in WordPress. My blog was on the “want to crack” list, and my logs data shows four attempts to crack my site using the “POST /blog/wp-trackback.php?tb_id=1″ technique of this script. Just to be clear, in the same way that trying to infect users with viruses/trojans is considered webspam, cracking sites is a violation of our webmaster quality guidelines. This incident provides a good reminder for everyone to upgrade their WordPress, especially since: – In bigger WordPress news, version 2.1 just came out. Here’s 10 things you might want to know about the new version. The high-order bit for me is that WordPress 2.1 introduces an autosave functionality. You can read the official 2.1 release post by Matt Mullenweg, who recently turned twenty-three. […]

By: P|xeL

P|xeL — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:05:40 +0000

Happy birthday from Italy! ;-) Emanuele aka P|xeL

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:39:09 +0000

Happy birthday, Matt.

By: zeldman

zeldman — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:57:29 +0000

Happy birthday, ya big bum! Mine’s Jan. 12th.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:09:16 +0000

Wow, your layout is amazing. Seriously dude, nice work.

By: Benji

Benji — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:24:50 +0000

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to me (but I’m five years older than you ;-))

Congratulations and good luck for 2007!!

By: Thought Hacker

Thought Hacker — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:41:14 +0000

Happy birthday ^^

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:50:49 +0000

Happy Birthday from Madrid 😉

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:51:01 +0000

happy somewhat late birthday dude!!!

By: Jaux

Jaux — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:10:02 +0000

Happy birthday, great Matt!

By: Lou Quillio

Lou Quillio — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:13:26 +0000

Really nice work in the past year, Matt. Many happy returns. Never get old. No need.

By: The Drowmage

The Drowmage — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:43:38 +0000

Happy Belated birthday (sorry for being late)… enjoy reading your blog and the other one on WordPress!

By: klisiu

klisiu — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:43:31 +0000

Happy birthday Matt!

By: Andrew N.

Andrew N. — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:12:41 +0000

I’m going to be 20 and that is scary…Happy B-day and the best of luck to you.

By: Andrew N.

Andrew N. — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:12:04 +0000

I’m going to be 20 and that is scary…Happy Birthday!

By: suki

suki — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:46:33 +0000

A few days late, but Happy birthday!

By: Dovile

Dovile — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:28:35 +0000

Happy birthday!

By: Thomas Arie

Thomas Arie — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:22:32 +0000

Happy birthday!

By: Alan J Castonguay

Alan J Castonguay — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:00:28 +0000

Happy birthday, young man.

By: Jacques Marneweck

Jacques Marneweck — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:48:45 +0000

Happy birthday Matt.

On a side note I’ve fixed that user contributed note content from your commit message 😉

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:17:41 +0000

Bonne Fete, man! I think I was 22 when I landed a gig at an interactive ad agency, by comparison. Keep up the music (Alto) thing too. Thanks for the party.